Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Best place to volunteer REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA 3355 S. Purdue Its motto is “Fighting hunger … feeding hope.” Volunteers help the largest private hunger-relief organization in the state do this by sorting and distributing enough food to feed 90,000 people every week. That’s vitally important in a state […]
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Letters
Oklahoma Gazette provides an open forum for the discussion of all points of view in its to the Editor section. The Gazette reserves the right to edit letters for length and clarity. Letters can be mailed, faxed, emailed to pbacharach@okgazette. com or sent online at okgazette.com, but include a city of residence and contact number […]
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New Zoo revue
3Horse Productions’ Michelle Colbert and Zoo Amp manager Russ Garrett Photo: Mark Hancock Michelle Colbert, president of 3Horse Productions, the new leaseholders, not only wants to allay those fears, but tout all the work that’s been done to make the venue bigger and better than ever. “We’ve done all kinds of great things out here. […]
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Howard stern
OKC Downtown Airpark rendering He made a name for himself as a photographer for the likes of The Allman Brothers Band and Delaney & Bonnie. When the management of the latter refused to pay him, they instead offered him the opportunity to promote a concert for New Riders of the Purple Sage. Pollack accepted and, […]
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Circle of life at the zoo
Only days after the zoo celebrated the birth of a baby gorilla, a Western lowland gorilla named Kathy died early this morning. Cause of death is pending an autopsy. The 50-year-old Kathy came to the OKC facility from the Philadelphia Zoo in 1971. “Kathy was considered the matriarch of her troop,” said Alan Varsik, the […]
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Tangled web
The site in question, zooamp.com, was set up by Howard Pollack’s company, Facilities Management Group (FMG), which had managed the Zoo Amp from 2003 until last summer, when the Oklahoma City Zoological Trust awarded the venue’s management contract to another company. The parting between FMG and the city was acrimonious, with both sides exchanging barbs […]
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Le Freak
Credit: Brad Gregg Of course, he also tweeted “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” on Dec. 19, so the concert video may be getting shorted on the exclamation points. No official release date has been announced, so we’ll just trust Coyne’s word that it will be sometime soon. A preview of Freak Night (catchphrase: “!!!Party!!!Death!!!Love!!!” — no, really) on […]
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Freaky Friday
Maybe it’s too early, but what are you doing New Year’s Eve? Unless you’re Down Under, you’re not going to see The Flaming Lips’ annual New Year’s Eve Freakout. It’s true: Music’s favorite weirdoes will ring in 2013 in Australia, but in exchange, they’ve conjured up a holiday gift more appropriate than their usual end-of-year […]
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Autumn amusement
Pumpkinville 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, through Oct. 31 Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno myriadgardens.org 297-1528 $2.50-$5, free for members Enjoy a family-friendly event that includes crafts, a hay bale maze, pumpkin decorating and a pumpkin village, to name just a few of the festive happenings. Haunt the Zoo 6:30-8:30 p.m. Oct. 26-31 Oklahoma City […]
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Rock of ageless
It was as if the birth of Nirvana had never happened. It was as if music never stopped being fun. And catchy. And above all, horny. That’s the power of Lita Ford, Poison and Def Leppard. Maybe I had been living in Colorado too long. Maybe I had been too accustomed to concerts featuring Brooklyn-based […]